2019/2020 = NBA > STATS

congrats to the phoenix suns

justin anderson 1-15 fg including 0-12 3p and somehow a +9
http://bkref.com/tiny/jjVdk

"Lillard is the only player in league history other than Wilt Chamberlain with three 60-plus point games in the same season."

heat been letting tyler herro play point guard for huge stretches of games lately w/ butler & dragic sitting and he's looked pretty awesome. had his first career 30 point game vs the thunder tonight ... his game is expanding, some of these finishes are really creative and he's had some good passes too. i still think his ideal role is as a dynamite bench scorer but i feel like he has perennial sixth man of the year potential. he'll also be a great crunch time player at least on offense bcuz you can't leave him open but he's already great at getting his shot off too when guys contest, and now he's adding some playmaking. he will have one of the nastiest step backs in the game sooner rather than later as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL0UfdrVwj0

hes doin stuff like this as a one and done rookie gotta think hes got bigger things ahead than sixth man

proud to see a ballislife white make it in the big leagues

between herro, pj and keldon, this kentucky class is good af

i was like who tf is keldon then i said to myself i bet hes on the spurs

https://i.imgur.com/YqDoOyp.png

BIG BODY

mod tools test post

i think Modtoolstes T'post is in the G League, no?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/pelicans-zion-williamson-did-not-record-a-block-or-steal-in-bubble/ar-BB17Uyrm

didnt seem like any of the pelicans were trying

this guys arms are freaky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AIIFlL5zfQ

kid is legit. getting more confident on offense too. has has some really nice finishes on cuts this season.

booker-bridges-ayton is a nice a backbone

rubio and saric are nice complements to that

cam johnson who everyone hated them taking in the lottery cause hes 35 looks like hell be a solid player

yeah hes been great and a big part of their surge. oubre is hurt and cam has played the starting role perfectly. opens up the floor for everythign to work.

oubre might be bad iirc

Prob best cast as a 6th man but doubt he’d be willing to take that role. Lotta teams need wings so he should have suiters.

hollinger: While the Mavs can score, calling this the “best offense ever” isn’t quite true. They have the highest Offensive Efficiency mark in league annals since they began tracking turnovers, but the rising offensive tide of recent years lifts all boats. Relative to the league, this isn’t even the best Dallas offense ever. It’s not even close, actually. This season’s Mavs were 6.1 points better than the league average, which is nice but not historically amazing. The 2003-04 Steve Nash-Dirk Nowitzki Mavs, who smoked the league for a then-titillating 112.1 points per 100, were actually 9.2 points beyond the norm.

Interesting

bam +42 in the first two games of heat-pacers

someone on twitter asked the question who would you rather have bam or embiid and at first i laughed then i thought about it a bit..

yeah i think you could argue that you’re more likely to win a title with bam as your no 2 than embiid as your no 1. bam is certainly the more malleable player. and i feel like everyone would agree it would be a shock if bam’s career wasn’t considerably longer

otm to all points.

bingo. i feel like embiid in the right situation can still be great (san antonio)

ask that question again in 2021

CP -36 in 37 minutes

SGA +7
Schroe 0
Dort +4

he's really had no impact on the series whatsoever

CP3 sweeping the Rox and getting Dan Tony fired was #1 on my playoffs wishlist. Oh well, hopefully Dame is up for it.

why on earth would you want him fired

he's not coming back anyway so it's kind of a moot point.

is there anyone in the wings? and surely that might change if hou win it

haven't heard of any other candidates yet

cp3 might not be back with OKC either

Who’s gonna take on that contract? Maybe the year after next when it’s a 44m expiring but not this next season

even more so if he disappears these playoffs

why on earth would you want him fired

Because the Rockets play the ugliest basketball and I want them to implode so maybe I never have to see that offense again.

riiight

kind of weird that you're suggesting d'antoni has any say over what they run

remember kevin love

Thinking about what Tatum's per game targets are going to be next year and figured 25/8/4. Looked up 25/8/4 seasons for guys under 25 years old.

It's five guys who won an MVP in their career, a 3x scoring champ, Luka Doncic, Kevin Love, and Karl Towns.

— Ryan Bernardoni AC⚡️AB (@dangercart) September 28, 2020

seems good

The Unofficial NBA Ref Ball Database https://t.co/YuHI7bu7mx

Contains all the fouls and violations called by each referee between 2016 and 2020 (Regular Season + Playoffs)

— llewellyn jean (@owenlhjphillips) December 9, 2020

id be interested to see some analysis of ref stats but it needs to be more thought out than what ive seen elsewhere. im pretty sure refs follow a defined pattern as they move around the floor so the baseline refs will naturally focus more on defensive 3 seconds, crew chiefs probably call more techs etc

youd also assume that if a ref is known for calling a lot of say freedom of movement fouls then the other refs will naturally call fewer of them because they know the first ref can be relied on to make the call, which would make their individual counting stats look off but not lead to a worse outcome for the game. really this database needs advanced stats that adjusts for how each ref team performs

can we start at 20/21 thread?

we usually start new threads on opening day or after

fair enough